The first video uploaded to YouTube, 18 years ago, featured cofounder Jawed Karim at the zoo. Watch it here.
The 18-second video, entitled"Me at the zoo," features Karim, a YouTube cofounder, at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of a bunch of elephants.
"All right, so here we are in front of the elephants," he says in the clip."The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that's, that's cool. And that's pretty much all there is to say." The low-quality video was posted on YouTube a month before the platform's public beta launch in May 2005. By this point, YouTube's teama dating site to a vision for a platform that made online video more accessible and easier to share.
Karim, who left the company in 2005 to get a graduate degree in computer science from Stanford University, got 137,443 shares of Google stock — worth about $64 million at the time — when the site was acquired in 2006, perSince leaving YouTube, Karim has become a vocal critic of Youtube's proposed changes.
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